I've tenatively decided on a name for the cat that has multiple meanings and references, the best kind of name

Maladicta. It is the name of a female vampire in the Discworld series - very cool, very sharp-witted character - who is in the the book on tape, Monstrous Regiment, that we listened to on the way home after I found her. It comes from the Middle English word "maladicte," meaning to curse/accursed. It contains a nested legal reference (dicta - means the segment of a judicial opinion that isn't legally binding). It also refers to talking, or even being foul-mouthed, and she is a talky cat. I'm happy with it.

Baby cat has not yet mastered the concept of object permanence. When her ringy ball gets stuck, she walks away and starts to search all other places the ringy ball has previously been stuck. It seems that, once stuck, the essential ringy-ballness exists in potentia in every possible sticking place. It doesn't matter where the ringy ball was last seen, it could be in ANY sticking place at any given time.

Perhaps giving her two ringy balls was a mistake.

What's this?


Camera strap, yum...


Must get ... lens cover!

Baby cat's first photo. No name yet. She's about 8 weeks old.

I passed the Bar.

I met Trent Lott at the Parliamentary Assembly, he was with the Senate delegation - all republicans, btw - and was kind enough to pose for a photo with me:

ENGLAND

November 5, 2005:

Buckingham Palace



Changing of the Guard

Nelson's Column, Trafalger Square

National Gallery

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

Big Ben, with the London Eye in the background

Westminster Cathedral


Backlit stained glass windows at Westminster Cathedral

Tower of London

Henry VIII's armor in the Tower museum. Nice codpiece, no?

Tower Bridge

November 6
Salisbury Cathedral

Stonehenge

Knowlton Church. A Norman church built inside a Neolithic henge monument.

A pony and her foal in the New Forest:


Christchurch Priory




PARIS

The Catacombs of Paris

Montparnasse Cemetery



Sainte Chapelle

Notre Dame

Entertaining details on the outside of Notre Dame

The Lovure

A cylinder seal